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Heffel Toronto Auction = $16.8m

November 25, 2011 by Marion Maneker

David K.J. Heffel auctions Jean Paul Lemieux's 'Nineteen Ten Remembered’ for a record $2.34 million.

The auction, held in Toronto, attracted more than 400 attendees and resulted in $16.73 million in total sales (all prices are in Canadian dollars and include a 17 per cent buyer’s premium) and is now the fifth highest grossing live auction in Canadian history. Of the 190 lots, three sold for more than $1 million dollars and more than 30 works sold for more than $100,000.

  • Heffel’s Fall 2011 Auction is now the fifth highest grossing live auction, totalling $16.73 million in sales.
  • Jean Paul Lemieux’s Nineteen Ten Remembered sold for $2.34 million, breaking the international auction record for a Canadian post-war and contemporary work, breaking the record previously set by Riopelle.
  • Emily Carr’s War Canoe, Alert Bay sold for $1.22 million, breaking the record for most valuable Canadian watercolour sold at auction.
  • Lawren Stewart Harris’s Rocky Mountain Sketch CXXI (Mount Robson) sold well above asking for an impressive $1.81 million.
Heffel Results from November 24th Sale here

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